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Bug 1461524

Summary:	CC: Auditing: ROLE_ASSUME event recorded even though no privileged user access occurred
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Christina Fu <cfu>
Component:	pki-core	Assignee:	Endi Sukma Dewata <edewata>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Asha Akkiangady <aakkiang>
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:	Marc Muehlfeld <mmuehlfe>
Priority:	urgent
Version:	7.4	CC:	alee, edewata, mharmsen, msauton, ssidhaye
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	pki-core-10.5.1-1.el7	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Certificate System no longer incorrectly logs `ROLE_ASSUME` audit events Previously, Certificate System incorrectly generated the `ROLE_ASSUME` audit event for certain operations even if no privileged access occurred for a user. Consequently, the event was incorrectly logged. The problem has been fixed and `ROLE_ASSUME` events are no longer logged in the mentioned scenario.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2018-04-10 16:58:29 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
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Description Christina Fu 2017-06-14 16:48:07 UTC

I am finding a number of the following audit events when no role access was attempted
[AuditEvent=ROLE_ASSUME][SubjectID=$Unidentified$][Outcome=Success][Role=<null>] assume privileged role

Comment 3 Christina Fu 2017-10-25 21:37:20 UTC

Here is an example of where it happens:
0.http-bio-8443-exec-8 - [20/Oct/2017:16:37:47 PDT] [14] [6] [AuditEvent=CMC_USER_SIGNED_REQUEST_SIG_VERIFY_SUCCESS][SubjectID=CN=cfuEC][Outcome=Success][ReqType=enrollment][CertSubject=CN=cfuEC2][SignerInfo=CN=cfuEC] User signed CMC request signature verification success
0.http-bio-8443-exec-8 - [20/Oct/2017:16:37:47 PDT] [14] [6] [AuditEvent=ROLE_ASSUME][SubjectID=CN=cfuEC][Outcome=Success][Role=<null>] assume privileged role

It seems to be happening right after authenticate() in ProfileSubmitCMCServlet.java
It is possible that it was making assumption that it's always the role user that submitted the CMC request.

To replicate, one could try submitting a user-signed certificate:
https://pki.fedoraproject.org/wiki/PKI_10.4_CMC_Feature_Update_(RFC5272)#User-signed_CMC_requests_Example_.28with_PopLinkWitnessV2.29

Comment 4 Matthew Harmsen 2017-10-31 15:27:19 UTC

edewata fixed in master:

    https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/commit/16d1fd02482f8bae4d26a505ebacf37f3dc022d7

Comment 9 Sumedh Sidhaye 2018-01-22 13:25:28 UTC

Build used for verification:

root@csqa4-guest01 ~ # pki --version
PKI Command-Line Interface 10.5.1-5.1.el7

After following the procedure mentioned in:

https://pki.fedoraproject.org/wiki/PKI_10.4_CMC_Feature_Update_(RFC5272)#User-signed_CMC_requests_Example_.28with_PopLinkWitnessV2.29

I do not see any stray ROLE_ASSUME audit event entries like before.

Hence marking this verified.

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2018-04-10 16:58:29 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:0925